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Engine Drops Out of B-52 During Training at Minot Air Force Base
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. — An engine dropped out of a B-52 bomber during a training flight on Wednesday, the Air Force has confirmed following questions from Defense News. (www.defensenews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
OK. Now we can all stop being silly. That really could have been catastrophic.
The Air Force is now saying the engine didn't just drop off the aircraft but, according to AF Secretary Deborah Lee James it was a catastrophic failure of the engine, "Literally, I'm told, it conceivably disintegrated and, upon disintegration, came out of the aircraft." The debris is believed to be "at the bottom of a riverbed". They also believe it is "a one-off" and not a fleet-wide problem. They stayed airborne to burn off fuel before landing so fortunately it was not an impending disaster type emergency. Still scary enough.
From the local paper:
http://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2017/01/searchers-identify-where-b-52-engine-dropped/
http://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2017/01/searchers-identify-where-b-52-engine-dropped/
Love how the article says the pilot declared an in-flight emergency when he "discovered" and engine was gone..."Hey Co, didn't we have four of those on the left wing when we took off?"
I sometimes lose my keys, why can´t the plane lose an engine :-)
Add a new procedure of one engine out of the ballpark for landing. Luckily it didn't take out and major controls.